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dyyyy
April 13th, 2009, 10:45 AM
hi,
since 9.04 will soon be released, i would like to install xubuntu on my pc,
but i already have ubuntu, and i wanted to check if i could install it over it and keep my configurations and files
thanks

Aubergines
April 13th, 2009, 12:51 PM
You could try
aptitude install xubuntu-desktopthen purging ubuntu-desktop afterwards.

snowpine
April 13th, 2009, 01:30 PM
Aubergines is correct, that is the best method to install Xubuntu on top of an existing Ubuntu install.

Here is more detail on how to remove Gnome (if you choose to; you don't have to): http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce